Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-03-14-Speech-3-106-000"
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"Mr President, most of us would like to see Bosnia and Herzegovina developing strong and effective institutions at state level.
It is obvious that without a functioning state, no country can cope with the demands of European integration. But there is a real risk here that we, the EU, can overshoot it. If we push too hard for central institutions, our efforts might backfire. It will stoke precisely those centrifugal and nationalist dynamics that we want to prevent, because in the end, for any state to function, it requires democratic legitimacy and that cannot be imposed by outsiders.
Let me be clear: European integration can indeed transform the politics and economics of candidate countries as it has done in my country, but it cannot construct democratic legitimacy of states and their institutions. Only its citizens and its political elites can.
Of course, Bosnia and Herzegovina can only join the EU as a single state, but it needs to be a single state that its citizens and politicians from the three entities will agree upon amongst themselves."@en1
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